Product Description: The core teachings and practices of Buddhism are systematically directed toward developing keen and caring insight into the relational or interdependent nature of all things. Hershock applies Buddhist thought to reflect on the challenges to public good, created by emerging social, economic, and political realities associated with increasingly complex global interdependence...read more

9780415770521 | Routledge, August 18, 2006, cover price $168.00 | About this edition: The core teachings and practices of Buddhism are systematically directed toward developing keen and caring insight into the relational or interdependent nature of all things.

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9780415544436 | Routledge, April 29, 2009, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: The core teachings and practices of Buddhism are systematically directed toward developing keen and caring insight into the relational or interdependent nature of all things.

Product Description: Chan Buddhism has become paradigmatic of Buddhist spirituality. Known in Japan as Zen and in Korea as Son, it is one of the most strikingly iconoclastic spiritual traditions in the world. This succinct and lively work clearly expresses the meaning of Chan as it developed in China more than a thousand years ago and provides useful insights into the distinctive aims and forms of practice associated with the tradition, including its emphasis on the unity of wisdom and practice; the reality of "sudden awakening"; the importance of meditation; the use of "shock tactics"; the centrality of the teacher-student relationship; and the celebration of enlightenment narratives, or koans...read more

Product Description: Chan Buddhism has become paradigmatic of Buddhist spirituality. Known in Japan as Zen and in Korea as Son, it is one of the most strikingly iconoclastic spiritual traditions in the world. This succinct and lively work clearly expresses the meaning of Chan as it developed in China more than a thousand years ago and provides useful insights into the distinctive aims and forms of practice associated with the tradition, including its emphasis on the unity of wisdom and practice; the reality of "sudden awakening"; the importance of meditation; the use of "shock tactics"; the centrality of the teacher-student relationship; and the celebration of enlightenment narratives, or koans...read more

Product Description: Chapters included in Part One, "Education, Relationality, and Diversity," examine the growing intellectual awareness of a pervasive interdependence amid diversity in all aspects of the human experience brought on by the unrelenting processes of globalization...read more

9780824831608 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, April 1, 2008, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: Chapters included in Part One, "Education, Relationality, and Diversity," examine the growing intellectual awareness of a pervasive interdependence amid diversity in all aspects of the human experience brought on by the unrelenting processes of globalization.

Product Description: Among Buddhist traditions, Zen has been remarkably successful in garnering and sustaining interest outside the Buddhist homelands of Asia, and “zen” is now part of the global cultural lexicon. This deeply informed book explores the history of this enduring Japanese tradition—from its beginnings as a form of Buddhist thought and practice imported from China to its reinvention in medieval Japan as a force for religious, political, and cultural change to its role in Japan’s embrace of modernity...read more

9781442216129 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, March 14, 2014, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: Among Buddhist traditions, Zen has been remarkably successful in garnering and sustaining interest outside the Buddhist homelands of Asia, and “zen” is now part of the global cultural lexicon.

Product Description: By uniquely using Buddhist teachings, Reinventing the Wheel assesses the personal and communal costs of our global economic and technological commitments. Hershock urges reinvention of the technological "wheel", and, at the same time, acknowledges the need for new forms of practice suited to our rapidly evolving social, political, and economic circumstances...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

9780791442319 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $50.50 | About this edition: By uniquely using Buddhist teachings, Reinventing the Wheel assesses the personal and communal costs of our global economic and technological commitments.

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9780791442326 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: By uniquely using Buddhist teachings, Reinventing the Wheel assesses the personal and communal costs of our global economic and technological commitments.

Product Description: Recent history makes clear that the quantum leaps being made in technology are the leading edge of a groundswell of paradigm shifts taking place in science, politics, economics, social institutions, and the expression of cultural values...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

9780824826475 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: Recent history makes clear that the quantum leaps being made in technology are the leading edge of a groundswell of paradigm shifts taking place in science, politics, economics, social institutions, and the expression of cultural values.

Product Description: The most pressing issues of the twenty-first centuryuclimate change and persistent hunger in a world of food surpluses, to name only twouare not problems that can be solved from within individual disciplines, nation-states, or cultural perspectives...read more

9780824839673, titled "Value & Values: Economics & Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence" | Univ of Hawaii Pr, January 1, 2015, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The most pressing issues of the twenty-first centuryuclimate change and persistent hunger in a world of food surpluses, to name only twouare not problems that can be solved from within individual disciplines, nation-states, or cultural perspectives.

Product Description: Uses Buddhist philosophy to discuss diversity as a value, one that can contribute to equity in a globalizing world.Diversity matters. Whether in the context of ecosystems, education, the workplace, or politics, diversity is now recognized as a fact and as something to be positively affirmed...read more

9781438444598 | State Univ of New York Pr, December 1, 2012, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Uses Buddhist philosophy to discuss diversity as a value, one that can contribute to equity in a globalizing world.

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9781438444581 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 2, 2013, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Uses Buddhist philosophy to discuss diversity as a value, one that can contribute to equity in a globalizing world.